Dr. Peter Miyamoto Spring Piano Masterclass for Advanced Studio

Name: Dr. Peter Miyamoto Spring Piano Masterclass for Advanced Studio
Start: 2026-03-07T10:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-03-07T12:00:00-06:00
Location: Steinway Piano - St. Louis

Schedule

Sat Mar 07 2026 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Steinway Piano - St. Louis | Maryland Heights, MO

SLAMTA is pleased to host a masterclass for advanced piano students on March 7, 2026 at 10:00 am at the Steinway Piano Gallery in St. Louis. Dr. Miyamoto is the Middlebush Chair of Piano at the University Missouri-Columbia.
Dr. Miyamoto will hear students who are picked by audition. Below are the audition information and registration.
Masterclass Audition: February 7, 2026, 1:00-3:00 pm
Registration deadline: January 23, 2026
Location: Steinway Piano - St. Louis
Registration form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/u/4/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4muob70Az_ozbz4X15qKfo-mAeQMvpJvavMP4k4Ci8y0LBg/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=109424515068347937871
Dr. Miyamoto’s bio:
Pianist Peter Miyamoto enjoys a brilliant international career, performing in recital and as soloist in Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, China, and Japan, and in major US cities such as Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. In 1990, Miyamoto was named the first Gilmore Young Artist. He won numerous other competitions, including the American Pianist Association National Fellowship Competition, the D’Angelo Competition, the San Francisco Symphony Competition and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Competition, and was a top-prize winner in the National Chopin Piano Competition.

Peter Miyamoto holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University School of Music, Michigan State University, and the Royal Academy of Music in London. His teachers included Maria Curcio-Diamand, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Marek Jablonski, Aube Tzerko, and Ralph Votapek, as well as Szymon Goldberg and Felix Galimir for chamber music. He has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Chautauqua Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, Florida Philharmonic, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony, and Springfield Symphony, working with such conductors as Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, David Lockington, Raymond Harvey, Lawrence Leighton-Smith, William Henry Curry, Kyle Pickett and Kirk Trevor. A dedicated chamber musician, he has collaborated with such musician as Charles Castleman, Victor Danchenko, Joel Krosnick, Lara St. John, Anthony McGill, Amit Peled, David Shifrin, Allan Vogel, singer Lucy Shelton, and members of the Juilliard, Borromeo and Pacific String Quartets. He is the Executive Director of the Plowman Chamber Music Competition.

Currently Middlebush Chair of Piano at the University of Missouri, where he was also named 2021 Professor of the Year, Peter Miyamoto formerly taught at Michigan State University, and the California Institute of the Arts. He has presented lectures and master classes through the Irving S. Gilmore Keyboard Festival and the Amadeus Piano Festival, at numerous music institutions including the Colburn School, Interlochen Academy of the Arts, Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Michigan among many others, as well as internationally in Canada, China, Greece, Japan and Serbia. From 2003-2015 he served as head of the piano faculty at the New York Summer Music Festival and has served on the piano faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music’s Young Artist Summer Program and the Curtis Mentor Network Program in Philadelphia.

Miyamoto’s six solo CDs, available on the Blue-Griffin label, have received excellent reviews in periodicals such as Gramophone, International Record Review, Fanfare, and American Record Guide and were recognized by the American Prize. He has also recorded a CD with violinist Julie Rosenfeld of world-premieres of six works for violin and piano on the Albany label, produced by GRAMMY Award winner Judith Sherman.